An upright type apparatus for embedding wireless IC tags, the upright apparatus including: a vibration alignment unit for aligning the wireless IC tags in the same direction by applying a vibrating force to the wireless IC tags; a separating unit for separating the wireless IC tags aligned by the vibration alignment unit and dropping the separated wireless IC tags one by one into a vertically-dropping passage; a plurality of IC tag processing units disposed along the vertically-dropping passage in a vertical direction; a plurality of IC tag pressure feeding sections disposed at a lateral side of the plurality of IC tag processing units, respectively; and a defective wireless IC tag reception section provided beneath the vertically-dropping passage.